La soiree des Thuileries

Prints and Drawings

1774

Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet (French, 1742-1813)
after Pierre Antoine Baudouin (French, 1723-1769)

The prolific reproductive printmaker Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet frequently etched paintings by Pierre Antoine Baudouin. This frothy confection lacks Baudouin’s pastel colors and gauzy glazes, but substitutes an ethereal sense of moonlight. Two stylish lovers share a knowing glance—and a glimpse of skin—on a park bench partially concealed behind a monumental column. This early state of Simonet’s print lacks a title or signature, but the couple’s elegant meeting place is specified in the final state as the Tuileries Garden, near the Louvre, Paris.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet
Title: La soiree des Thuileries
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: Artist's working dates 1762–1813
Medium: Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 29.1 × 23.3 cm (11 1/2 × 9 3/16 in.); Plate: 36.1 × 26.7 cm (14 1/4 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 36.3 × 27 cm (14 5/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Reference Number: 1926.977
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Portalis & Beraldi III p. 557, no. 5 II/III

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